OCU was previously the component division of OKI Electric for high speed lasers and high speed III-V
amplifiers before it was acquired by ROHM Semiconductor in 2008. As of the closing, the OCU business was
merged into and now operates as NeoPhotonics Semiconductor GK, a Japanese subsidiary of NeoPhotonics.
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The 39th ECOC conference will be held at an important time for the industry as it faces the challenge
of establishing next generation networks that are larger, faster and more agile, as the demand for broadband
continues to increase.
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Within a telecoms world dominated by new devices and apps,
a simple fact that seems to be passing everyone by, is that today’s networks are reaching a capacity crunch
as current technology reaches the limits of its capability. Science is struggling to keep ahead of demand so
badly that current technology is set to reach its capacity limits within the next 20 years – meaning that if
nothing is done, the networks will crash and the telephones won’t even work, never mind the internet.
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The rebrand has been prompted by the companies’ evolution over the last two years to focus their product portfolio
on coherent solutions for the photonics test and measurement instrumentation market.
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The company’s decision to design and launch the Lynx2-MPO™ Ribbon Jacket splice-on connector addresses the
growing network migration from 10Gbit/s to 40 and 100 Gbit/s and the subsequent accelerated use of optical fiber
ribbon cables that meet the larger fiber counts, real-time scalability, speed of installation, and cost efficiencies
required for the migration.
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UT Arlington physicists have developed a new fiber-optic spanner, or wrench, that uses two laser beams to
stably rotate and move microscopic objects, such as living cells, an innovation that will help scientists
to work more efficiently at the microscopic level.
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This product family includes the successful flagship EDF MP980 that is a desired choice for erbium doped
fiber amplifier (EDFA) product designs worldwide, while other products within the portfolio are geared towards
amplifiers operating in the C-Band and L-Band.
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AFL is introducing a new family of Contractor Series handheld OTDRs enabling cost-effective
troubleshooting of FTTx PONs and point-to-point metro/access networks. The new CS260 OTDR family offers two models
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Optical digital coherent transmission has already been adopted by some telecommunication operators.
It is likely that it will be fully adopted starting in 2012, not only in 100 Gb/s applications but
also in 40 Gb/s applications.
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The MTS-2000 is a handheld modular test set for the installation, turn-up and maintenance of optical fibers across
Entreprise, Metro and FTTx/Access point-to-point or point-to-multipoint networks (PONs).
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The technology for production of the epitaxial wafers was developed by a team of
researchers who came from the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in collaboration
with German company VI Systems GmbH.
This technology has no rival anywhere in the world.
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The OFI-400HP includes traffic and tone detection and low insertion loss that permits technicians to positively
identify fibers without disrupting services. It also incorporates an optical power meter designed for use where
power levels up to +33 dBm are present.
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JDSU created the new transceiver leveraging its Integrated Laser Mach Zehnder (ILMZ) chip that was
developed in 2007 and used to create the world’s first tunable XFP transceiver for telecom networks in 2009.
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